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Switzerland Still Has A Huge Share Of The Watch Market, All Advertised At The Airport On Illuminated Hoardings. Gosh, They Are Ugly.

Fish Have Water, The Bushmen Of The Kalahari Have Sand, And Houstonians Have Interior Décor.

Curiously, It Is Hard Not To Be A Little Optimistic About The Future For Zimbabwe (as Nobody At All Calls It Yet, Except In Political Speeches). The Fear Is Not That There Will Be Mass Slaughter Of The Whites, Followed By Their Flight To South Africa And The Collapse Of The Economy, But That The Need To Retain White Confidence May Mean That The Blacks Are Badly Disappointed.

British Diplomats Who Worked In Iran During The 1980 Hostage Crisis Are Deeply Upset By Ben Affleck's Oscar-winning Film 'argo,' Which Suggests They Refused Shelter To The Group Who Managed To Get Out Of The U.s. Embassy.

I've Been Intrigued By 'le Monde' Ever Since Work Took Me To Paris Once, And I Noted That On A Day When There Was Some Huge Worldwide Story, The Paper Led Its Front Page On Some Cabinet Changes In Turkey. It Implied A Magnificent Disdain For The Quotidian Folderol Of Mere News.